bad dream
noun
: a dream that is scary or upsetting : nightmare
Scary movies always give me bad dreams.
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Kind of a bad dream, which is meant to be forgotten.
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 15 Nov. 2024
Hit the hay at a decent hour each night and watch your urge to quit go away like a bad dream.
—Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
The apocalyptic scenes of 2020 and 2021 receded like a bad dream; any worries about fire were a problem of the past, or the future.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 27 July 2024
Sonia was to create a positive ending for a bad dream and practice it daily.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
The novel begins in 1864 with a young man named Bird waking up from a bad dream to the sound of cannon fire and gunshots: Hundreds of U.S. Army cavalrymen are descending on his Cheyenne and Arapaho camp in what will eventually be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
What would have been a bad dream for many was a massive win for the Florida wildlife experts who discovered a 7-foot-wide, 500-lb. pile of invasive Burmese pythons.
—Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
Sometimes, being the only student in a school feels like a bad dream, a nightmare even.
—Vulture, 15 Nov. 2023
With political pressures increasing, brand boycotts multiplying, and the 2024 campaign bearing down on the board room like a bad dream, what are sensible CEOs from left, right, and center to do?
Depolarize, comes the answer from a growing cast of civic entrepreneurs stirred to action.
—Tucker Eskew, Fortune, 19 July 2023
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 15 Nov. 2024
Hit the hay at a decent hour each night and watch your urge to quit go away like a bad dream.
—Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
The apocalyptic scenes of 2020 and 2021 receded like a bad dream; any worries about fire were a problem of the past, or the future.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 27 July 2024
Sonia was to create a positive ending for a bad dream and practice it daily.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
The novel begins in 1864 with a young man named Bird waking up from a bad dream to the sound of cannon fire and gunshots: Hundreds of U.S. Army cavalrymen are descending on his Cheyenne and Arapaho camp in what will eventually be known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
—Emma Alpern, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
What would have been a bad dream for many was a massive win for the Florida wildlife experts who discovered a 7-foot-wide, 500-lb. pile of invasive Burmese pythons.
—Chris Barilla, Peoplemag, 19 Mar. 2024
Sometimes, being the only student in a school feels like a bad dream, a nightmare even.
—Vulture, 15 Nov. 2023
With political pressures increasing, brand boycotts multiplying, and the 2024 campaign bearing down on the board room like a bad dream, what are sensible CEOs from left, right, and center to do?
Depolarize, comes the answer from a growing cast of civic entrepreneurs stirred to action.
—Tucker Eskew, Fortune, 19 July 2023
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